Top 37 Quotes by Paul Valery

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Politeness is organized indifference.